Միջնադարեան երեք անտիպ տաղեր
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1974
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The rich collection of Armenian manuscripts in the Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, includes a Tagharan (Collection of Poems). This manuscript consists of two parts, both written on paper, which later were bound together. The first ninety-three folios constitute a complete manuscript; the last of these folios has the opening lines only of the principal colophon, the rest having fallen off. The second part of the codex (fols. 94-114) was written by a different hand on a different kind of paper. The author of this study has established that the first and major part of the manuscript was copied by the scribe Margare Ardjishetsi at the monastery of Kharabasta (=Sukhara) or Varag in the province of Vaspurakan. It was written in the first half of the sixteenth century, but not earlier than the year 1522 when Margare began his scribal career. The second part of the codex which is incomplete at the beginning and the end, was written prior to the year 1551.
The collection contains a total of twenty-nine poems. Twenty-six of these are the works of ten known medieval Armenian poets: six by Frik; four by Arakel Baghishetsi; three by Hovhannes Tlkourantsi; three by Mkrtich Naghash; two by Khachatur Kecharetsi; four by Toros (Mshetsi?); and one each by Hovhannes Erznkatsi, Nerses Shnorhali, Zakaria Ercts, and Artametatsi. The authors of the remaining three poems are unknown.
After a thorough examination of the published poems and the catalogues of Armenian manuscripts, this author has established that three of the works in our ‘Tagharan’ have been unknown to scholars engaged in medieval Armenian poetry; hence they are published here for the first time. In the manuscript, the first poem is entitled a ‘Lament by Frik’; the second and third are without title, but the names of the authors, that is, Arakel Baghishetsi and Hovhannes Tlkourantsi, are distinctly recorded at the head of each work. It is hoped that the publication of these hitherto unknown poems will make a significant contribution to the study of medieval Armenian poetic literature.
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Սանճեան, Ա. Գ., «Միջնադարեան երեք անտիպ տաղեր», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1974, Պէյրութ, էջ 199-212